I want to change things. Not keep freeing spirits here and there, but change the way people do things. Change their minds. And we don't know how to do that, but I thought you might. You said Haviland Industries was afraid I would talk back. Well, I want to talk back.

If it's a monster, we made it that way.

She looked down at the city. It was changing, and she didn't know what it would look like when it was done. Maybe it would never be done.

I do not need your guilt, nor do I care for it. This is not about you. If you feel guilty, then use that to change things for the better. Otherwise, your feelings mean nothing.

I am Molly Stout," she said, each word bringing more of her body alive around her. "I am human.

I always hate this part," Ariel said softly beside Molly. "This moment on the cusp of greater things. The waiting is almost worse than being in the midst of it all.

So the good things you've accomplished, those you had help with. But the danger. The blame. Those belong to you alone?

It's always worse before you start. So start.

And when you are kept from your home, no matter where you are, you are in a cage.

I guess that's more about me than about you, [...] I mean, me wanting you to have a name I can use. Wanting you to be he or she. You aren't those things, and you don't have to be.